This is a Biologist working as a seagrass, salt marsh and estuarine water quality monitoring lead for the NPS Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network, Inventory and Monitoring program, serving initially in the first year as a project manager for a large, multi-state seagrass resilience and restoration project. The position is engaged in the study, long-term monitoring, restoration, and management of seagrass, estuarine water quality and salt marsh resources in eight coastal National Parks.

Duties

This is a Biologist serving as the Northeast Region's Seagrass Resilience and Restoration Project Manager. This position will manage a project funded through the Inflation Reduction Act to improve seagrass resilience in Northeastern parks. The project is a multi-faceted project that includes genetic analysis of seagrass meadows in parks from North Carolina to Maine, site selection modeling, and pilot restoration at key park sites. The Biologist will coordinate all aspects of the project, including ensuring progress toward milestones, reviewing products, and facilitating communication between contractors, cooperators, park staff, regional staff, and key stakeholders. The biologist will also be a staff member of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Inventory and Monitoring Network. Once the project management tasks end, the individual will be leading several ongoing long-term monitoring efforts related to seagrass, estuarine water quality, and salt marsh elevation as their permanent duties. The biologist will reside in the Northeast Region and work at an NPS office. Directs an intricate program of biology and other natural resources activities that involve sensitive and complex issues that may impact a wide variety of park issues. Carries out program management duties by developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and proposals and/or grants to justify funding requests and accomplish goals. Administers and tracks project funds and prepares accomplishment reports. Prepares management and scientific reports regarding the results of protection, mitigation, reintroduction, inventory, monitoring, and research activities. Summarizes new and conventional information for use by scientists, managers, park staff, cooperators, and partners. Develops and implements long range plans for the inventory, evaluation, documentation, preservation, research, and interpretation of the biological and other natural resources within the appropriate mission, objectives, and resources contexts. In cooperation with appropriate staff, researchers, and partners, the incumbent designs, develops, tests, and implements scientific monitoring protocols to identify, evaluate, and conduct long-term monitoring of biological resources.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-02/20/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. INDIVIUAL OCCUPATION REQUIREMENTS (BASIC REQUIREMENTS): Have successfully completed a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to this position. -OR- Have a combination of education and experience that included course work equivalent to a major (i.e., 24 semester hours) in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or a discipline closely related to biology; PLUS appropriate experience or additional course work. The quality of the combination demonstrates that I possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of the position and is comparable to that normally acquired through the completion of a full four-year course of study with a major as described above. - AND - To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: Have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level Specialized experience in seagrass monitoring, conservation and genetics, including population genetics, adaptation, and evolution, as well as applying the principles of conservation genetics, related to the restoration of seagrass.. You must include hours worked per week. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Northeast Regional Office 1234 Market Street 20th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 US
• Name: Sarah Hummel
• Email: [email protected]